Im having two kind of node_modules in my folders.
One in the root folder, that works fine, but one also in the folder called "html/app" ( so would be html/app/node_modules )
Why wont it ignore it? it adds everything in the node_modules app folder when i do the command "git commit ".
Current .gitignore contains:
/dist
/tmp
/out-tsc
# dependencies
/node_modules
/html/app/node_modules
html/app/node_modules
If I understood your question right - you want to ignore both node_modules folders.
Try to cut that folder from project, then commit it and then return node_modules folder back.
Future commit's would ignore both folders.
EDIT: Probably it works in that way now because of that git already track that folder.
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In my project's root directory there are directories like 'tools':
tools/evaluate/test/
tools/evaluate2
Under test, there are some .py and .csv files. I want to ignore all files except .py, so in my .gitignore, I have this entry:
!tools/**/*.py
I want to recursively ignore all non-python files under tools. What's wrong with that?
if the files you are trying to ignore have been already committed, you need to remove them from the staging area as well, that's done by:
git rm --cached !tools/**/*.py
check the status:
git status
add the files you want to delete to .gitignore i assume manually, i don't know of an automatic way, then finally:
git add .gitignore
git commit -m "Remove unused files"
Two parts are needed here:
# Recursively ignore everything in tools that has an extension:
**/tools/**/*.*
# Except .py files recursively in tools:
!tools/**/*.py
It seems a straightforward one, but having researched multiple ways to do it, I can't gitignore a folder within a directory.
I have a root directory which contains all of my code in it. Because it has some back-end NodeJS stuff in it, it has a 'node_modules' folder which contains hundreds of files. As a result, when I try to upload the entire parent folder, GitHub says there's too many files to upload and tells me to reduce the number I'm uploading.
The crucial part is though, the folder has to be uploaded as a whole, as it itself is within a GitHub repository with other files with different folders in.
That means when I go onto my repository, I need this folder's files to display within the folder, and not separately within the repository. I need all of the files to be within this folder, within the parent repository, excluding the node_modules folder.
For example ->
Parent repository -> Child Directory (what I'm uploading) -> Individual files
I've tried to add the node_modules folder to my gitignore through the following methods:
Adding: node_modules/ to my gitignore file
Writing: echo node_modules >> .gitignore through my terminal
Adding a separate gitignore file within my node_modules file with a * in it
None of them have worked and I can't find any other solutions. For reference I'm using a Mac.
Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong, or how it'd be best to do it?
By default, you do not need to include the node_modules folder in your repositories because the package.json file contains all of your project's dependency information. This means that anyone who clones your repository can run npm install and have the entire node_modules folder without problems.
To solve this you can create your own .gitignore file, creating a new file at the root of your project and renaming it to .gitignore (writing exactly that way). Then you can open it with any text editor and add */node_modules to one of the lines.
This will likely solve your problem.
I'm using Github Desktop on Windows 10. I have a .gitignore file with which I'd like to ignore everything in the directory, including all subdirectories.
What's frustrating is that most files are excluded, but I'm still getting a few random files that I cannot seem to ignore.
I have a directory, say, My Dir/Sub-dir, I want to ignore. I also want to ignore all files of extension, say, *.swf. Thus, I write this .gitignore file:
My Dir/Sub-dir
*.swf
But, when I go back to Github Desktop, I still get two files similar to the following in the list:
My Dir/Sub-dir/anotherdir/randomfile.xml
My Dir/Sub-dir/animation.swf
What's going on? Is this a bug? Or am I missing something?
EDIT:
Other alternative .gitignores I've tried are:
My*Dir/Sub-dir
*.swf
My\ Dir/Sub-dir
*.swf
My Dir/Sub-dir/
*.swf
/My Dir/Sub-dir
*.swf
EDIT:
So, I've tried the git rm --cached <file> command on my files, and it worked - until one of the files changes again. Github Desktop then once again says they need to be updated.
p.s. It may be that they somehow got indexed in the master branch, as I'm currently in a different branch. Would this cause it? And, if so, how would I eliminate these files from all branches?
To ignore all trees under specific directories, append the trailing slash to the directory:
# Ignore directory at all levels, even if the directory is nested under other directories
My Dir/Sub-dir/
# Ignore the directory only if it exists at the root of your repository
/My Dir/Sub-dir/
# Ignore the sub-directory, no matter where it appears within your repository
Sub-dir/
# Ignore all swf files
*.swf
If you are continuing to experience difficulties, your problem may be that the files you wish to ignore are already indexed by git (via the git add command). If the files are not committed yet, you can remove them from the index with git reset -- 'My Dir/Sub-dir/'. If your files have been committed, you can remove them from the index with git rm --cached <file>.
I guess the whitespace could be a problem. Try
My\ Dir/Sub-dir
or
My*Dir/Sub-dir
This could be a good reference .gitignore entire directory with whitespace in name
i made a clean installation of visual studio code. Why do i get those warnings about Git 99+ warnings. How should i fix this ?
Those are Atom IDE generated files.
Add this to the .gitignore file:
.atom/
If the file not exists, create one in the root of the repository
It looks like you just forgot to ignore all of the generated files in your git directory. You need to find the directory and add it to your .gitignore file. Lets say the directory name is node_modules, so your .gitignore file content should be something like this
node_modules/
Using this way, those all active changes files will be ignored.
If a user sees that message it is most likely, that his git repository root is at the different directory, and probably is at the much higher directory (comparing to his/her repo). It can be checked by running:
git rev-parse --show-toplevel
If that's the case, then deleting hidden folder .git from this higher directory will solve the case.
I use the latest version of Github Desktop. My repo consist of a rather large C# solution with many sub-directories and projects. I'd like to ignore all R#-cache files and compiled binaries using the .gitignore file which resides in the root directory of the local repo directory. There are no other gitignore's anywhere in this repo and none in any parent directories. My current gitignore is this:
*.suo
*.user
_ReSharper.*
bin
obj
packages
*.cache
*.pdb
*.dll
*.exe
*.xml
When I made my changes, recompiled and tested everything, I open Github Desktop. It catches almost all files that should be ignored, only some .dlls, .pdbs and .exes are not ignored and always show up as changed:
Now, there are way more binary files in this repo. Only the specific ones in the screengrab are missed.
Is this fixable, and/or can the gitignore be altered to catch all files that it should catch?
Here's what I tried:
Removed and re-cloned the repository
Removed and manually re-created the gitignore
Right-click->Ignore by file extension from within the GitHub Desktop client. This does not work, worse, it creates duplicate masks in the gitignore
Checked for conflicting gitignore's in directories accessible by Github Desktop
Maybe you have files that were already being tracked by git before you modified the .gitignore? Those files (at least in git 1.9.1) aren't ignored when added to a .gitignore.
For example, I created a "test" directory at the root file one of my repos and put a file in it:
mkdir test
echo "abc" > test/x.txt
I added, committed and pushed it. Then I edited .gitignore at the root and added this line:
x.txt
I also made an edit to test/x.txt AND added a new file:
echo "123" >> test/x.txt
mkdir test2
echo "xyz" > test2/x.txt
Now when I run "git status" I see:
modified: .gitignore
modified: test/x.txt
So test2/x.txt is being properly ignored, but test/x.txt is still being tracked.
To force the file to be ignored, you can delete it, add & commit the deletion together with the .gitignore change, then restore the file.